J.L. Picard
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Sexy Béret...
Woodfluter said:Don't know if this is helpful, but Elosegui has five grades.
1. Super luxury (super lujo): top of the line, Teflon coated, in black and blue, other colors on request.
2. Txapeldun: black, other colors on request.
3. Closely-woven Exhibition: in black, blue, red.
4. Fine Exhibition: in five colors.
5. Basic: in black and red, other colors on request. Only one with diamond-shape label.
Here is the label in either of mine:
I doesn't match the labels on their website for any of the grades.
Here is a sampling of the first four, in order:
Maguire said:Whatever happened to officer's peaked caps, shakos, and all those nice hats we used to see people wear, now the beret is worn, simply because it is easy to fold up and such. Its a shame really.
Lone_Ranger said:The shakos, campaign hats, and peaked caps went out, with the common use of the steel helmet.
Mark Brody said:It's not entirely out. I still wear my peaked cap whenever I'm in my dress uniform. I'd say about 1 in 20 men have them, and even fewer wear them. Being a hat aficionado, I like them, and don't mind carrying it under my arm.
Mark Brody said:It's not entirely out. I still wear my peaked cap whenever I'm in my dress uniform. I'd say about 1 in 20 men have them, and even fewer wear them. Being a hat aficionado, I like them, and don't mind carrying it under my arm.
Edward said:From an outsider's purely aesthetic point of view.... if you're going to have a dedicated dress uniform, then I favour the idea of a distinct, separate hat for the same. (I imagine where this is not done, it's a combination of the military having better thnigs to spend the money on, and perhaps being unwilling to require troops to buy another hat.... I guess it could be optional, but that starts to lose the point of dress uniform, which is surely where conformity across all personnel at same rank should be at its maximum?) I've seen berets with full dress uniform; I particularly remember a young soldier attending what I took to be his girlfirend's graduation ceremony - which also happened to be that of a then-girlfriend of mine - in full dress uniform. Looked really sharp, all apart from the beret, which just seemed oddly out of place. That said, my first association with the beret is always going to be squaddies on patrol in Northern Ireland - back not long post-ceasefire when they sent them out in the beret instead of the combat helmet. (Community relations issue - personally, I think the folks that would consider themselves threatened by the army would have been more likely to prefer they lsot the guns , but that would kinda defeat the point, eh? lol ). for this reason, they're something I just always associate with combat gear, I suppose.
MagistrateChris said:Part of the uproar about the general issue beret in the Army was the choice of the black beret, which had previously been designated as headgear for Rangers. That's how mine was issued to me. Dark green was for the SF boys. Maroon/red to the 82nd Airborne. I believe in the past, the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) had its own beret as well. By making the blak beret general issue, it seemed to diminish the value of that issued to the Rangers over the years. The tan/khaki beret currently issued to Rangers gives them back their identity, but at the cost of their history.
I recall reading once upon a time that Navy SEALs issued a beret. Anyone know if that's accurate?
By the way, my beret is on a shelf with numerous other items of my personal history. Purely decorative, not worn any longer. Doesn't fit anymore, as I don't wear a high and tight haircut.